LaQuedra Edwards put $40 right into a California Lottery merchandising machine at Vons Grocery store in Tarzana, Los Angeles County, and was about to pick out her favourite scratch-off tickets when somebody ran into her, inflicting her to by chance push a incorrect quantity.
Out popped a $30 200X Scratcher’s ticket, as an alternative of her common, inexpensive ones. Edwards mentioned she was irritated to have spent most of her cash on a ticket she did not even need.
However that feeling quickly turned to pleasure. As soon as again in her automotive, she scratched the undesirable ticket, which revealed she had received the $10 million high prize.
“I did not actually imagine it at first, however I obtained on the 405 freeway and stored wanting down at (the ticket), and I nearly crashed my automotive,” Edwards mentioned. “I pulled over, checked out it many times, scanned it with my (California Lottery cell) app, and I simply stored pondering this cannot be proper.”
“I am nonetheless in shock” Edwards mentioned. “All I keep in mind saying as soon as I discovered how a lot I simply received was, ‘I am wealthy!'”
Edwards plans to make use of the prize cash to purchase a home and begin a non-profit group.
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